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Ted Lau (劉重義)

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Ted Lau (劉重義)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Ted Lau
  • Chinese: 劉重義
  • Era: Birth Place
  • Geography: 台灣台南市
  • Core roles: professor, educator
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

From the record

  • 2015-09-19 — TAH encyclopedia entry 「615. Ted Lau 劉重義 / 2015/09」 published in the taiwaneseamericanhistory.org story corpus (2015/09; bibliographic record — full text stays in the vault) ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/615-ted-lau-e5-8a-89-e9-87-8d-e7-be-a9-201509|TAH #615, 2015-09-19]]). Absorbed as the reciprocal link for this card’s listed file (the work file’s Subjects section links here but this page carried no wikilink back); the record carries no quoted speech, so nothing was pasted under Quotes. 劉重義 vs 劉聰德 HOLD stands.

Education

  • 清華大學
  • Ohio State University — 1977 — Ph.D. Math

Employment

  • George Mason University — 助教

Role in the Community

  • Co-author of the 1985 NARTE booklet 風起雲湧——北美洲台灣獨立運動之發展 (with 李逢春、陳志淸、林泰源) — a primary movement-published political history: 1985.
  • Contributed the essay 問Mr. Stevie Wonder現在幾點 — 07.
  • Invited speaker at the first 「台灣學生」冬令會 (Dec 1983, cadre training), on a panel with 許信良、洪哲勝、林孝信 — recalled in Our Journeys 238 as a 風起雲湧 gathering of differently-aligned movement leaders.
  • Officer of the 台獨聯盟美國本部 (WUFI-USA): elected 第二副主席 at the 第九屆盟員代表大會 (Jan 1984, San Jose; 主席 陳南天) and 第一副主席 at the 第十屆盟員代表大會 (1986-01-08, San Jose; 主席 李南風); withdrew from the alliance in 1986 — per the alliance’s own history Our Journeys 234.
  • Profiled as one of the 「費城三傑」 movement cohort (with 李逢春、林泰源、陳志清 — his 風起雲湧 co-authors) in 2015-11.
  • Authored the memoir-piece 3F費城五傑 on the Philadelphia movement cohort — his own first-person account of the circle behind 風起雲湧: 2015-12.
  • After leaving WUFI-USA in 1986 he resurfaced in the movement as 召集人 of 臺灣民族同盟: keynote speaker at the morning session of the 第四十五屆美東夏令會 (Oct 2016), quoted there as holding 「民族運動是臺灣建國之必須條件」 — recalled in 翁進治’s conference memoir 2016.
  • Authored the essay 3F紀念音樂會的民族論述 (2016-01-05), on the nationhood discourse surrounding the 3F memorial concert — published alongside his 3F費城五傑 memoir piece: 01.
  • HOLD: conflict in TAH records — this page is 劉重義, but the encyclopedia entry 01 carries the same English name with Chinese name 劉聰德; do not merge until identity is resolved.

Timeline

  • 1977 — Ph.D. in Mathematics, Ohio State University
  • 1983-12 — panelist at the first 「台灣學生」冬令會 with 許信良、洪哲勝、林孝信
  • 1984-01 — elected 第二副主席 of 台獨聯盟美國本部 (第九屆盟員代表大會, San Jose)
  • 1985 — co-author of NARTE booklet 風起雲湧
  • 1986-01 — elected 第一副主席 (第十屆盟員代表大會, San Jose); withdrew from the alliance the same year
  • 2015-12 — authored 3F費城五傑 (380)
  • 2016-01 — authored essay 3F紀念音樂會的民族論述 (188)
  • 2016-10 — as 召集人 of 臺灣民族同盟, morning keynote at 第四十五屆美東夏令會 (260)

Family

No filled family fields on the TAH profile.

Corpus re-grep 2026-09-23: same hits (publications1025, mystories297, ourjourneys238/234, 369 費城三傑, 760 劉聰德 record); 劉重義 vs 劉聰德 HOLD stands, nothing new. Corpus re-grep 2026-09-25 (slice 09240700-15): two not-yet-absorbed records found — 380. 3F費城五傑 (authored by him) and 260. 美東夏令會備忘錄 (names him 臺灣民族同盟召集人) — absorbed above. 劉重義 vs 劉聰德 HOLD stands.

Sources

  • |TAH Foundation
  • |taiwaneseamericanhistory.org Corpus re-check 2026-09-26 (deepen-x slice 09251000-1): fresh grep works/+articles/ — hit set identical to records already wikilinked/absorbed above; no new absorbable facts. SKIP-with-reason: saturated. Corpus re-check 2026-09-26 (deepen-x slice 09260317-12): fresh grep 劉重義|Ted Lau — hit set identical (publications1025, mystories297, ourjourneys238, 760 劉聰德 record, 369 費城三傑, ourjourneys234); 劉重義 vs 劉聰德 HOLD stands. SKIP-with-reason: saturated. Corpus re-grep 2026-10-10 (deepen-x slice 10081200-1): fresh grep 劉重義|Ted Lau across all 5 corpus dirs — one not-yet-absorbed record found: 188. 3F紀念音樂會的民族論述 (2016-01-05, authored by him, bibliographic band-B record) — absorbed above. 劉重義 vs 劉聰德 HOLD stands. Corpus re-grep 2026-10-12 (deepen-x slice 10120700-13): fresh grep 劉重義|Ted Lau|劉聰德 across all 5 corpus dirs — hit set identical to records already wikilinked/absorbed above (publications1025, mystories297, ourjourneys238/234, 369 費城三傑, 380, 260, 188, 760 劉聰德 record); 劉重義 vs 劉聰德 HOLD stands. SKIP-with-reason: saturated. Corpus re-grep 2026-10-13 (deepen-x slice 10120700-30): fresh grep 劉重義|Ted Lau|劉聰德|重義 across all 5 corpus dirs — 12 hits; the 3 surname-only extras (ourjourneys233, publications1085, whos-who-723) are 許重義 (Chung-Yi Hsu), a different person, not Ted Lau. Remaining hits are the 615 encyclopedia record (already in Sources), works/index.md and sources/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org.md listings. No new absorbable facts; 劉重義 vs 劉聰德 HOLD stands. SKIP-with-reason: saturated.

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